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While she’s less than a year away from retirement, Congresswoman Lois Capps says she still has a lot she needs to get done before leaving office. “I intend to work as hard on the last day I’m in office as I did on the first day,” the Santa Barbara Democrat said. Some of her effort […]
Fearing for the worst, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved funding earlier this week for a new day shelter pilot program designed to provide housing for the most vulnerable when severe weather may occur. “Given the weather predictions and what we know about our homeless population, there’s an urgent need to extend the […]
The dismissal of Gary West as Cabrillo’s boys basketball coach did not last long, and West relished his return. After the Lompoc Unified School District School Board fired West as Cabrillo’s boys basketball coach earlier in the month, West was back on the sidelines coaching Thursday night and his team rolled to an 83-55 win […]
The Saints dominated play against Cabrillo on Tuesday, but they didn’t pull ahead of the Conqs for the 2-1 win until the 73rd minute of a critical Los Padres League contest at Santa Maria High. Both boys soccer teams started the game 5-1-0 in league and tied for second place behind Santa Ynez — the Pirates […]
Two words: Mattermark Daily When I started blogging in 2004 I think I was the third VC blogger after David Hornik* and Fred Wilson (if you were, or know, of another pre-2004 VC blogger, please tell me so I can update my historical recollection.) I remember lots of people asking me why I was doing it. I heard […]
Often relegated to the role of slavish cannon fodder for Sparta’s spears, the Achaemenid Persian empire had a glorious heritage. Under a single king they created the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Source link
I wrote a post a few months ago about sharing data between iOS apps and app extensions in which I recommended using NSFileCoordinator and NSFilePresenter. But I had to update the post to remove that portion when some helpful people pointed me to Apple Tech Note 2408, which read in part: When you create a […]
I’ve decided to try something new on this blog. Rather than using up full posts for short announcements, I’ve added a new block for announcements at the top of the home page. It’s in orange, will generally be only a few lines, and include a link. Since these are just blog posts being formatted differently, […]
A large part of the Swift Standard Library is concerned with Generators, Sequences and Collections and functions that operate on them, so it’s pretty important to have a good understanding of them. I was going to write a blog post about how to create and use Swift generators and sequences. But while I was trying […]
Over the past month or so I’ve been diving into Swift, after many years of working with Objective-C on Macs and iOS. It’s been a change but, gradually, I’m learning the Swift way of doing things. On the way I’ve run into a few bumps in the road when dealing with Core Data, and I […]